TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Catherine E. TI - Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970 SN - 9780190681654 AV - DC733 .C537 2018 U1 - 944/.361 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Paris (France)-History-19th century KW - Paris (France)-History-20th century KW - Paris (France)-In art KW - Art and history KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Paris and the Cliché of History -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction-​Paris, Photography, and History: 1860 to 1970 -- 1. Imagination and Evidence: Visual History at Paris's Municipal Historical Institutions -- 2. Index and Time: New Forms and Theories in Photohistories -- 3. Past and Present: "Repicturing" during the Occupation and Liberation of Paris -- 4. Style and Subjectivity: The Bimillénaire de Paris and the Parisian Cliché -- 5. "C'était Paris en 1970": Amateur Photography and the Assassination of Paris -- Conclusion-​Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Vidéothèque de Paris -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Paris and the Cliché of History traces the changing historical meanings of photographs of this city during a century marked by urban renovation, war, occupation, liberation, and visual documentation. Challenging the idea that photographs merely document the past, it calls for new methods of reading photos as material objects with histories of their own and sheds insight on the capital's reduction to an image in the twentieth century UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5447665 ER -